Ye Chuan's Speculation

"Qiu Ya?"

Ye Chuan hadn't expected the flesh monster to bring him here, let alone to find Qiu Ya sleeping peacefully in such a place.

Surrounded by rotting flesh and gore, Qiu Ya sat there, looking completely out of place.

"Gurgle... gurgle..." Just then, the flesh monster in front of him began to crawl toward Qiu Ya. "Sacrifice..."

The creature's body split open, looking as if it intended to swallow her whole!

Seeing this, Ye Chuan immediately kicked the flesh monster away. "Get lost!"

The flesh monster flew backward, rolling across the ground like a pile of sludge before squirming back up. "Gurgle... Kin..."

"Auntie... for you to eat... sacrifice..."

Its tentacles wriggled in the air, seemingly trying to curry favor with Ye Chuan, before it turned around and disappeared into the other carriages.

For some reason, it looked a little aggrieved.

"..." After watching the flesh monster vanish, Ye Chuan's gaze fell upon Qiu Ya. She was still asleep, quiet and motionless.

If it weren't for the rise and fall of her chest and the sound of her breathing, Ye Chuan might have thought she was dead.

"Hmm... she doesn't seem injured, and her physical condition appears stable." Ye Chuan reached out to check on Qiu Ya. After confirming she wasn't hurt, he decided to wake her up.

"Hey."

"Hey—"

Qiu Ya didn't react. It wasn't until Ye Chuan started considering a 'wake-up slap' that her eyelashes fluttered slightly, as if finally responding.

"Hmm?"

"Mmm... I'm so sleepy," Qiu Ya muttered to herself. She slowly opened her eyes and rubbed them.

"I think I had a nightmare."

"I dreamt that the drunk uncle turned into a monster... and then ate a guy."

As Qiu Ya mumbled, her gaze landed on Ye Chuan. "Oh, Little Brother?"

Upon recognizing Ye Chuan, Qiu Ya paused for a moment, seemingly unable to process the situation.

"I... You..."

"Huh? So, the things that happened just now... weren't they a dream?"

Ye Chuan observed Qiu Ya closely. After confirming there was no trace of acting in her expression, he pointed at the rotting flesh filling the carriage and the visceral world outside the window.

"You... how do you not have any reaction to this?"

"What reaction?" Qiu Ya looked at Ye Chuan curiously. "Little Brother?"

Ye Chuan frowned.

What was going on here?

A normal girl would probably be scared to death seeing the situation outside, right? How could she be so calm?

Unless...

A possibility suddenly occurred to Ye Chuan.

Could it be that he was the only one who could see the world looking like this?

To confirm his theory, Ye Chuan glanced out the window. He quickly spotted some severed limbs floating in the sky—they appeared to be floating structures composed of numerous corpses, looking exceptionally gruesome.

"Look at that."

"That?" Qiu Ya looked in the direction Ye Chuan was pointing, then asked in confusion, "Little Brother, what do you want Big Sister to look at?"

"That."

"Isn't that just a cloud?" Qiu Ya blinked, seemingly baffled.

Ye Chuan: "..."

Ye Chuan then pointed to a distant mountain piled high with flesh and gore. "What about that?"

"A mountain. It's lush and green," Qiu Ya said.

"..."

Now, Ye Chuan knew exactly what was happening.

His perspective was completely different from Qiu Ya's. However, Ye Chuan quickly realized the key factor.

He had drunk the alcohol.

Since the train hadn't reached the next station for a long time, Ye Chuan had chosen to actively violate the rules to see what would happen.

Clearly, the changes in the train—the flesh, the horrific scenes—were all consequences of breaking the rules.

Since Qiu Ya hadn't violated any regulations, the train still appeared normal in her eyes.

This was getting interesting.

Dual perspectives?

"Little Brother, I just had a dream that a drunk uncle turned into a monster," Qiu Ya said.

"That certainly sounds like a nightmare." Ye Chuan didn't respond directly to her; instead, he pondered what that monster he just saw would look like from Qiu Ya's perspective.

"Hmm..."

He was a bit curious now.

However, he didn't know where that creature had run off to.

With all its squelching and gurgling.

"Little Brother, aren't you going to sit?" Seeing Ye Chuan standing, Qiu Ya patted the seat next to her.

That seat had long since melted into a mass of flesh. In Ye Chuan's vision, every time Qiu Ya patted the seat, blood splattered onto his face.

Ye Chuan: "..."

Ye Chuan calmly wiped the filth off his face without a word.

Just then, a voice came over the broadcast—

"Next station... destination... 24 hours remaining..."

"Passengers, please safeguard your personal belongings. In case of emergency, you may seek an attendant..."

"Please obey the attendant's requests..."

"...Bzzzt..."

After listening to the broadcast, Ye Chuan hadn't said anything yet when Qiu Ya spoke up, looking puzzled.

"That's weird. Is the PA system broken? It's just making static noises; I couldn't hear a single word."

"The broadcast is broken?" Ye Chuan paused. Although what he heard was intermittent, he had clearly understood the general message.

So, in Qiu Ya's perspective, the broadcast was inaudible?

That meant not only was the scenery different in their respective views, but the clues they received were also different.

"The attendant..." Ye Chuan asked Qiu Ya, "Have you seen any attendants on this train?"

"No, I haven't. This train is so strange, though. Why aren't there any staff members?" Qiu Ya maintained her scatterbrained demeanor; she had clearly dismissed the monsters she saw earlier as nothing more than a nightmare.

As she spoke, Qiu Ya seemed to remember something and pointed to a spot not far away.

"But Little Brother, there's a call button over there to summon someone. Do you think we should give it a try?"

Ye Chuan looked in the direction she was pointing. In his vision, that area was a mass of dark red with absolutely nothing there.

"You're saying there's a button there?"

"Mhm."

"Why don't you try pressing it?" Ye Chuan suggested.

"You go do it, Little Brother. You're already standing, after all~" Qiu Ya giggled.

"I..." Ye Chuan couldn't see the button, so he naturally couldn't press it. He crossed his arms and suddenly quipped,

"I'm not tall enough."

"That's true." Qiu Ya took a look; it indeed would be a bit difficult for Ye Chuan.

She had no choice but to stand up and walk toward the button.

"I'm pressing it then?" Qiu Ya said.